This Google Story Runs Deeper Than Some AI Images
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry show Google CEO Sundar Pichai India strongly criticized his company's |
| 0:12.4 | Gemini AI chatbot their controversial practice which |
| 0:18.4 | happened at his company of creating woke versions of historical figures, calling it completely unacceptable |
| 0:28.0 | in a strongly worded email to the company's staff. He assured that Google's AI teams are |
| 0:39.6 | actively addressing the issues with Gemini by which was temporary disabled following widespread criticism. |
| 0:47.4 | The chatbot drew attention for generating unconventional and historically inaccurate messages, |
| 0:55.0 | like portraying the Vikings as being black, |
| 1:00.0 | the popes as being women and a distorted representation of Nazi era German soldiers in the name of, diversity. |
| 1:15.8 | The scrutiny extended beyond the visual outputs as Gemini faced backlash for its text responses as well. |
| 1:26.4 | Notably, it garnered outrage for refusing to condemn pedophilia and asserting that there was no right or wrong answer |
| 1:37.6 | when asked to compare the moral standing of Adolf Hitler and Elon Musk. |
| 1:45.0 | It's a public relations nightmare for Google, whose stock loss over $70 billion in market value within a single day last week. |
| 2:00.0 | Vavek Ramaswami had something very interesting to say about this, but not just a condemnation. |
| 2:09.5 | Remember, Vavek made his money in the tech sector. |
| 2:14.0 | He's a very, very bright guy, and he understands a lot of this |
| 2:17.5 | that most people in media don't. |
| 2:21.4 | He says, peel back the onion and there's a deeper issue at play. |
| 2:27.0 | Yesterday Google's stock price cratered when it came to light that Gemini, its AI product, was generating images that were wildly off base. |
| 2:37.0 | And this was probably one of the more interesting business stories of the last year. |
| 2:41.0 | I want to dive deep into it on three different levels. One is on the |
| 2:45.3 | programming of the AI itself and what the heck is going on there. Second is the programming |
| 2:50.4 | of the incentives of Google's own employees. |
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